My name is Frederick George Abberline, former Detective Chief Inspector with Scotland Yard and the man most notably recognised for his failure to apprehend the Whitechapel fiend known as Jack the Ripper.Four years after Jack the Ripper terrorised Whitechapel, the nation's capital is plagued by, not one, but two, killing sprees: The Lambeth Poisoner and The Black Dog MurdersAided by the indispensible PC Colverson and William Pinkerton, head of the American Pinkerton's Detective Agency, Detective Chief Inspector Abberline must solve the most macabre cases of his career before the death toll reaches epidemic proportions.As if that wasn't enough, he has to contend with a seductive rogue psychic fleecing rich men out of considerable sums of money. And who is the evil entity known as Spring Heeled Jack?The Black Dog Murders will take you through the dark and twisting alleys of Victorian London and plumb the darkest depth of the human psyche.